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ALA Youth Media Awards - Monday, January 26, 2009. The results are in!

Read-i-cide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It - A 2.0 book discussion.

FREE Audio Books- More than 250 FREE audio books. Check this one out!

2CoolTools- Mobility @ Your Library. Ten Categories of How Libraries Use Mobile Devices.

Children's Picture Book Database from Miami University- This is an academic website for teachers, librarians, parents, and students. It has abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books. Please take a look at this and share with your teachers.

Book Swap- Check this site out! It is a great way to share books!!!! You pay the postage when someone wants a book you have listed and then you can use your credits to receive books!

Joyce Valenza's Neverending Search - Jocye is the Teacher-Librarian at Springfield Township High School, a technology writer, and a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at UNT's School of Library and Information Science. Her blog is a discussion of information fluency, searching, teaching, and learning in the 21st Century.

Interesting Nonfiction for Kids - I.N.K.- Children's Nonfiction Book Lists. This is a blog where you can meet writers whose words are presenting nonfiction in a whole new way. Check this site out and I think you will use it with your students!

Good Reads- A place to see what your friends are reading, keep track of what you have read and what you want to read, get a book recommendation from people you know, and answer trivia and collect your favorite quotes.

Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries (I-SAIL) This is a great website that aligns Library benchmarks and objectives to Common Core Standards

AASL Learning Standards aligned with Common Core Standards Gives correlations between AASL standards and English Language Common Core Standards